Simple Vegan Jollof Rice

8 days ago (Edited)

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Today is one of those days when I wake up and don't feel like doing anything; all I want to do is lay on my bed and snack on different healthy snacks while watching a movie.

But that's not possible because I am a mom, and I have to cook for my kids. Since I didn't have the vibe to cook, I made a simple jollof rice.

Ingredients

2 cups of rice

9 pieces of fresh tomato

4 pieces of fresh pepper

1 large spring onion

1 clove of garlic

2 pieces of large carrots

3 leaves of bay leaf

1-inch piece of ginger

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

1/2 teaspoon thyme

55 g of lettuce (for garnishing)

Salt to taste

Preparation

I started by washing my rice, and I placed it in a pot with sufficient water on medium heat and allowed it to boil for 10 minutes.

While the rice was still on fire, I went ahead to blend my tomatoes, pepper, garlic, ginger and half portion of the onion and set aside.

Then I went ahead to chopped my carrots, spring onion and the other half portion of the onion

By this time my rice has boiled, I dropped it from the fire and drained the water, and set aside

Then I placed my pot on heat, added my oil and allowed it to get hot, then I added my chopped onion and allowed it to saute

After that I added my tomatoes puree and allowed it to fry to 3 minutes and I added my spring onion and allowed it to fry for another one minute

After that I poured water that would be enough to cook the rice, then I added my bay leaves and salt to taste. Then cover it for it to boil.

After it boiled, I added my rice to it and stirred. I covered the pot and allowed the water to dry from the rice.

Then I reduced the heat to low heat, the I added my, chopped carrots and spring onion and covered the pot again and allowed it to steam for two minutes.